Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the cooperatives' new scope, the Kremlin obviously hopes to break the vicious circle of farmers lagging on their food deliveries because they get no goods in exchange-and industrial workers lagging in output because they get so little food. The expanded cooperatives would become a $1.7 billion business in 1947. This extra output will be marketed through 30,000 new cooperative stores and a host of state-licensed street vendors, who will be individual entrepreneurs like the pushcart peddlers from Naples to Nanking. Items planned for 1947: 375 million buttons, 35 million yards of cloth, 23 million pairs...
...invited to study and live at Dumbarton Oaks, where they investigate the chronology and local stylistic development of art works which are scattered over all the provinces of the former Roman Empire. The individual efforts of this group of experts are directed towards a common goal of broad historical scope. Their work has already added considerably to the world's knowledge...
...meeting, to be announced on departmental bulletin boards this morning, will consider the whole scope of the scholarship problem. A working subcommittee of the Graduate Council will be formed at that time to report its findings to the GSAS Committee on Scholarships...
This is Hart's first play since the warmed-over USO show, "Winged Victory," which he turned out during the war. It is not a success. Within a certain limited scope Hart is almost incapable of writing a bad line; the plot crisis of "Christopher Blake" is both believable and original--in the sense that it has not been rendered meaningless by countless Hollywood pot-boilings; and the acting is remarkably good throughout the large cast. All of which makes the failure of the play particularly unfortunate, for what ails it cannot be remedied in the traditional method...
...play is a dilemma in itself. Dealing in grotesque characters who are symbols of grotesque or obscure ideas, it poses questions far beyond the scope of the average theatregoer who comes without having road the play previously. It is the story of a man who destroys the world because he hates it and then is forced by God to create it anew in the image of his desires...